American Music Librarianship

A Research and Information Guide

Carol June Bradley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138990371
• eBook ISBN: 9781135476472
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

The literature of American music librarianship has been around since the 19th century when public libraries began to keep records of player-piano concerts, significant donations of books and music, and suggestions for housing music. As the 20th century began, American periodicals printed more and more articles on increasingly specialized topics within music studies. Eventually books were developed to aid the music librarian; their publication has continued over the course of nearly a century. This book reflects the great diversity of the literature of music librarianship. The main resources included are items of historical interest, descriptions of individual collections, catalogues of collections, articles describing specific library functions, record-related subjects, bibliographies designed for music library use, literature from Canada and Britain when relevant to U.S. library practices, key discographies, and information on specialized music research. The material is ordered by topic and indexed by author, subject, and library name.

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Libraries

2151	Abbott, J. C. and Hoover, J. N. “Regional and music research collections at Love-joy Library, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville,” Illinois Libraries 66 (1984): 174–78.
2152	Abramoff, Jean. “Troubadours of today,” Top of the News 24 (1967–68): 215–17.
	Description of a young patrons’ live folk music concert in the Merrick (NY) Public Library.
2153	“Account of the musical collections,” Books for All (Providence, RI, Public Library) 2 (1927): 346–47.
	About the Providence Public Library.
2154	“[Additions to the Library of the Harvard Musical Association]” Dwight's Journal of Music 12 (13 March 1858): 399.
	Additions of the past year are mentioned.
2155	Adkins, Marjorie R. “Using your public library's record collection,” Senior Scholastic 88 (1 April 1966): suppl. 9.
	Summary of record use at the Chicago Public Library.
2156	Adler, Israel. “Key to the Edward Birnbaum Collection of Jewish Music at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati,” Orbis Musicae: Assaph Studies in the Arts 10 (1990/91): 144–51.
	Brief history and description of the efforts at Hebrew Union College to catalogue and make known the materials in the Edward Birnbaum Collection.
2157	Aitken, Gene. Music Technology and Resource Center. Washington, DC: American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1989.
	A study of the Music Technology and Resource Center of the School of Music, Northern Colorado University.
2158	“Albert Schatz collections,” Fontes Artis Musicae 37 (1990): 197–98.
	Description of LC's Schatz collections of opera libretti, their available catalogues, and a recently issued microfilm edition available for purchase.
2159	Albrecht, Otto E. “Collections, Private.” In New Grove Dictionary of Music And Musicians, edited by Stanlet Sadie, v. 4, pp. 536–58. London: Macmillan, 1980.
	Valuable for current library locations of collectors’ libraries.
2160	_____. “Eighteenth century music in University Library,” University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle 5 (1937): 13–24.
	About holdings of the University of Pennsylvania.
2161	_____. “Music libraries in Philadelphia.” Reprint from Overtones, December 1939. Philadelphia: Curtis Institute of Music, n.d.
	Describes the music holdings of the University of Pennsylvania, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and Curtis Institute of Music.
2162	_____. “Musical treasures in the Morgan Library,” Notes 28 (1971–72): 643–51.
2163	_____; Cahoon, Herbert; and Ewing, Douglas C. The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection: Printed Books and Music Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Documents, Portraits. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1970.
	A catalogue of the collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
2164	Alderman, Pauline. “Exploring music libraries in southern California,” Music of the West Magazine 8 (October 1952): 5, 14–15.
	Valuable history of the growth of the music collections in the University of Southern California, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (University of California at Los Angeles), and the Los Angeles Public Library.
2165	“The Allen A. Brown Library of Music [letter of gift of his music library],” Boston Public Library Bulletin (1897): 220.
2166	Allen, Jay. ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I Collection Development and Management
• II Cataloguing and Classification
• III Administration
• IV General Studies
• V Librarians
• VI Libraries
• VII Education for Music Librarianship
• VIII Professional Organizations
• Author Index
• Subject/Name Index